![]() The following year, both resigned from the LDS Church. Jerald and Sandra Tanner were married by a Protestant minister in Mission Hills, California, on June 14, 1959. ![]() Each had been raised as Latter-day Saints, but discovered that they had each begun questioning the church in their teenage years. They met in the spring of 1959, in Salt Lake City, at a religious meeting of Pauline Hancock's Church of Christ (Lukeite), Soon after they were introduced, Jerald and Sandra began jointly researching the subject of Mormonism. Both families had longstanding ties to the Mormon community. She is a great-great-granddaughter of Brigham Young, the LDS Church's second president. Like her husband, Sandra was a fifth-generation Mormon. His great-great-grandfather, John Tanner, gave large donations to church founder Joseph Smith when the fledgling church was deeply in debt. He studied at the University of Utah and received a degree from Salt Lake Trade Technical Institute. Jerald Tanner was born in Provo, Utah, and was a fifth-generation Mormon. ![]() They jointly published more than 40 books about many aspects of the LDS Church, primarily its history. The Tanners, who are ex-Mormon, : 38 printed original versions of early Mormon writings and scripture in which they annotated and highlighted doctrinal changes, such as the rejection of Brigham Young's " Adam–God doctrine". ![]() ![]() As of 2022 Sandra Tanner continues to operate the ministry after Jerald's death in 2006. The Tanners founded the Utah Lighthouse Ministry (UTLM), whose stated mission is "to document problems with the claims of Mormonism and compare LDS doctrines with Christianity". Jerald Dee Tanner (J– October 1, 2006) and Sandra McGee Tanner (born January 14, 1941) are American writers and researchers who publish archival and evidential materials about the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ![]()
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